文档介绍：10. The Cat and the Grizzly
“ Another box of kittens dumped over the fence, Dave,” one of our volunteers greeted me one summer morning. I groaned inside. As the founder of Wildlife Images Rehabilitation1 Center, I had more than enough to do to keep up with the wild animals in our care. But somehow, local people who didn't have the heart2 to take their unwanted kittens to the pound3 often dumped them over our fence. They knew we'd try to live-trap them, spay4 or neuter5 them, and place them through work of approximately 100 volunteers.
That day's brood6 contained four kittens. We managed to trap three of them, but somehow one little rascal7 got away. In twenty-four acres of park, there wasn't much we could do once the kitten disappeared-- and many other animals required our attention. It wasn't long before I pletely about the lost kitten as I went about my daily routine.
A week or so later, I was spending time with one of my favorite “ guests”--a giant grizzly8 bear named Griz.
This grizzly bear e to us as an orphaned cub six years ago, after being struck by a train in Montana. He'd been rescued by a Blackfoot Indian, had lain unconscious for six days in a Montana hospital's intensive care unit,and ended up with neurological9 damage and a blind right eye. As he recovered, it was clear he was too habituated to humans and too mentally impaired10 to go back to the wild,so